Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.